slide scan from the NK collection. - Holstenflug brought D-BOOM onto the German register in 1979, but after a few months and Holstenflug's financial troubles, the Fairchild was operated by Wirtschaftsflug. In 1982 it was sold again to the US (as N381BA to Britt Airways) and returned to Germany as D-BCEA in 1990. Withdrawn in 1992, it was used as a fire trainer at Cologne and finally broken up in 2012.

Delivered to Allegheny Airlines as N2704J in 1965. To Air South in 1973. Stored at Marana, AZ in 1975. To Holstenflug as D-BOOM then to Wirtschaftsflug in 1979. To Britt Airways as N381BA in 1982 then to Best Tool and Manufacturing in 1989. and CARA Express Aviation as D-BCEA in 1990. Withdrawn from use at Cologne in 1991 and used as a fire trainer. Scrapped in 2012.

Basic Holstenflug livery

Ex N2704J Allegheny Airlines and Air South. To Britt Airways as N381BA and then returned to Germany as D-BCEA with CARA Express Aviation. Stored Cologne Bonn circa 2005 and used by the airport fire services painted with reg D-CGN01.

This F.27J spent a few days of crew training at NUE.

Stored at Cambridge after return to Lockheed by German operator Wirtschaftsflug, who flew it as D-ACWF between 1981 and 1983. The aircraft subsequently spent most of its life in Africa, and was damaged by attacks from the ground on no less than three occasions. The last of these, in Angola in 1999, resulted in the aircraft being shot down.